"Harry Kane is tired, people are saying. Spurs are tired, people are saying. Liverpool, though, are not tired,"writes Oliver Holt in the Daily Mail . "Liverpool are playing like a team that wants to make up for lost time.

"Liverpool are playing like a team possessed, a team that wants to chase its ghosts away, a team that has not won the league for 28 years and desperately, furiously does not want it to become 29.

"Last season at Wembley, Spurs overwhelmed them 4-1. It was a result that exposed Liverpool's limitations. This time, Liverpool overwhelmed Spurs. They overwhelmed them with their class and with their conviction and with their energy and with their desire.

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"The 2-1 scoreline may not sound as if it were an emphatic performance but that does not tell the story of the game.

"The murmurs of dismay that spread through the ranks of the home crowd whenever Liverpool broke with the kind of speed and intent that spreads terror among opposing defences told the story of the game.

"The way Liverpool made a good Spurs team look sloppy for most of the 90 minutes was the story of the game. The truth was that Jurgen Klopp's side were in a different class."

Mauricio Pochettino and Jurgen Klopp

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"For Spurs, it was the first time since the closing stages of the 2015-16 season that they have lost successive league fixtures," writes Daniel Taylor in the Guardian . "Lloris may have disgraced himself recently off the pitch but, if Vorm continues being this vulnerable, Spurs will long for their first-choice goalkeeper to return.

"Harry Kane’s performance did little to shift the perception that he needs a break and Mauricio Pochettino could not possibly argue it was deserved when Lamela, a substitute, caught out Alisson with a low, angled shot in the third minute of added time.

Erik Lamela runs back to the centre circle after scoring his first goal

"Almost inconceivably, Spurs could have salvaged a draw, with Mané lucky not to concede a penalty in the final seconds for tripping Son Heung-min, another substitute.

"Spurs were entitled to grumble because it was a clear foul. A draw, however, would have been a travesty."

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"Because all of the sloppiness and all of the lethargy that marked out the Watford game were on display again for Tottenham at Wembley," writes Miguel Delaney for the Independent . "It was so different from the great Spurs performances we have seen in the past in games like this, at home, against the best, when they would bring more energy and ambition with them than opponents could handle.

"Last season they beat Arsenal, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool here, wiping out Jürgen Klopp’s side 4-1 last October. This game could barely have been more different from that.

"That exciting Tottenham team had been replaced by a ponderous, restricted one. Here they played in a new 4-4-2 diamond system, meant in theory to grab a hold of the game and cut off Liverpool’s supply lines.

"Spurs did get hold of the ball, but they never did anything dangerous with it. Before Erik Lamela’s added time consolation goal, they had one meaningful chance: Lucas Moura hitting the outside of the post early in the second half."

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"It was at the end of September last year when champions Manchester City proved how serious they were by winning at Chelsea and this felt like a similarly significant moment for the Reds,"writes Matt Law for the Telegraph .

"It should have got even worse for Spurs when Mane, Naby Keita and Salah found themselves three on three against the home defence. But Mane was indecisive with his pass and eventually played the ball to Keita, who produced a poor shot that was saved.

"There were an unnecessarily nervy couple of minutes for Liverpool in stoppage time as Lamela pulled a goal back and fellow substitute Heung-Min Son fired wide. Son appealed that he had been fouled by Mane before missing the target, but, other than the final 90 seconds, Klopp’s players fully deserved his applause.

Wijnaldum finds the net for Liverpool in Saturday's game at Spurs (Image: Clive Rose/Getty Images)

"This was Tottenham’s second successive defeat since beating Manchester United 3-0, ahead of a Champions League trip to Inter Milan, and there remain some worrying signs.

"The fact his team yet again conceded a goal from a set play will have angered Pochettino and striker Harry Kane did little to dispel the theory that he is running on empty.

"Dele Alli should at least return from injury in time to face Inter, but Tottenham will need to be much sharper, more decisive and better in possession in Italy."

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